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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Viv19" data-source="post: 2111193" data-attributes="member: 502009">We’re all falling apart to some extent Annb. I think a common thread on this forum is that the contributors are fighting hard against something that in previous years would have totally defined them. To control their diabetes and sometimes put it into remission. My father was told when he was just over 40 that he had a severe heart condition and that he should get his affairs in order because he only had a few more years to live. He was 93 last week, not so in especially good health at this age but he battles through. He had one knee replaced (actually too late) about 14/15 years ago, refused to have the other one done. I think he has more pain in the artificial knee than the other, but I still find him climbing the stairs huffing and puffing his way up while the stair lift sits at the bottom of the stairs. He says that he needs to do it ‘to keep going.’I think bloody mindedness and not giving up is a vital ingredient to growing old.</blockquote>

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